Donna Brazile Takes on the Democrats

A lot has happened this week. Shootings, elections, tax reform, name calling, and trips to Asia filled up the headlines and at first, I thought I would have an easy time picking a story, but as I started looking into each event I wasn�t feeling it. What happened in Sutherland Springs on Sunday was horrific, but I don�t want to go over something that I have talked about previously and just repeat the same argument again. My response to this attack is a phrase from a previous New York Daily News headline which reads, �GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS.�

            And they are right. He�s not. We alone can fix it.

            The elections last night were quite exciting for the Democrats as they did win big. But there�s only one takeaway that I got from last night: The Republicans are in deep trouble and the Democrats might retake the majority in the House and Senate next year. I can�t really write an entire blog on that. It would be over pretty fast.

            Do I even need to say why I am not going to talk about tax reform? I have no knowledge or expertise in that field at all. Not to mention it�s tax reform. There is nothing less interesting in this world than tax reform. The only thing that�s close to being as boring as taxes is C-SPAN or waiting in line at the DMV.

            And lastly, name-calling and trips to Asia involve the one person I do not talk about on this blog, the president. As interesting and controversial as he is, I have pledged to not talk about him so I can give you, the reader, something original to read other than what the rest of the media spends all day and night shoving down our throats.

            Upon further examination of the news, I came across something that I thought would be a feasible subject. My Democratic readers probably will not enjoy what I am about to discuss. However, the truth sometimes hurts. In her new book, Donna Brazile, former DNC chair, provided evidence to claim that the Clinton campaign took control of the Democratic primaries in the race against Bernie Sanders. Her corporation, Hillary for America, handled the DNC�s finances following a memorandum signed by both Clinton and Sanders in 2015 to help fund and replenish the party�s coffers. However, a supplemental agreement was signed that gave Clinton much more influence over staffing and gave her campaign control over the purse strings of the DNC chair, who was Donna Brazile at the time. While the election process was not rigged, the DNC wanted Clinton to win and was partially controlled by Clinton. Before she had even won the nomination, the DNC was required to consult the Clinton campaign to appoint staff members and decide on budgets. We already knew that the party did not like Bernie Sanders following the leaking of emails from Debbie Wasserman-Schulz last year that led to her resignation. Some of these emails questioned Sander�s religion, scheming that he was an atheist and that they could get some points because of that. It was not pretty.

  Brazile�s exposure of the corruption within the Clinton campaign has disrupted the party and revealed a major division. Some have slandered Brazile, calling her crazy. She told her critics to, �Go to hell� on ABC this past Sunday and defended her claims. Fox News ran an opinion piece in support of her response to the criticism she has faced from her colleagues. We all know that Fox is just happy to see infighting within the Democratic Party so they are egging Brazile on.

            In addition to her claims of corruption within the Democratic primaries, Brazile also blamed the egos of President Obama, Clinton, and Wasserman-Schulz for stripping �the party to a shell� in her book. According to her, the Clinton campaign was so focused on getting the 270 electoral votes that they had abandoned Democrats in places like Louisiana and Mississippi in exchange for the handful of electoral votes within the District of Columbia. She also expressed that the Clinton campaign was condescending to her when she suggested different ways to allocate resources by telling her that they would take care of it.

            The Democrats have always tried to gloss over any fragments and problems within their party. The Republicans do not. This secrecy and lack of transparency is something that has always annoyed me about the party and the Clintons. Donna Brazile has done a great service for the Democratic party by exposing these issues. She has forced the party to confront these issues and change and made Democratic voters aware of the scope of the problems within the DNC. I never really knew much about Wasserman-Schulz until Brazile started talking about her last week and she sounds like quite a corrupt elitist who willingly gave her power over to the Clinton campaign. She is a representation of corruption at its finest.

Current DNC chair, Tom Perez

            I think the best thing for the DNC to do right now is to completely get rid of all Clinton appointed staffers and start fresh. Tom Perez, the new chair, should stay because he is doing a good job in giving resources to places that desperately need it, like Louisiana and Nebraska. No Democrat should be happy with the DNC as long as we remain complacent and gloss over the major allegations involving our party. We have to get rid of people like Wasserman-Schulz and Clinton. They are not the future. Grassroots campaigns are the future. The voters control the parties now, not the donors and insiders. That's all for this week.